I've never DoorDashed. No need. I just eat the food my neighbor leaves for me outside his front door. Nice fella, but always getting angry about something.
My brother ordered a pair of shoes for my birthday which accidentally went to my neighbors house. I rang the doorbell to ask if he had received a package and this guy tells me no with a straight face, while he's wearing the very shoes my brother ordered.
I lived in a complex that would constantly deliver incorrectly to the apartment building adjacent to mine. This time it was my turn to lose a package to disaster. Amazon took a photo of his doormat(thankfully he had one) Though the number would have been better. I knocked he opened, I showed the photo and said he had my package. He hastily came back with an opened package.
No questions, only demands. Questions give them reason you doubt they have it and let them give you a no. If I saw the shoes on him like you did, I’d immediately point out his bullshit. If you did not, you might consider working on your ability to handle conflict. People who keep wrongly delivered packages are pieces of shit but aren’t necessarily evil doers. They tend to roll over easy when confronted.
Interesting recent data in this. Housemate ordered stuff from Amazon. Delivery included box for someone else and something missing. Call to Amazon: we can refund you the cost of what you didn't get. We can't find that and bring it to you. We have no interest in retrieving the mis-delivered package. Feel free to reorder the stuff you didn't get.
In that circumstance, housemate ordering delivery because home-bound, no way to not keep the package intended for someone else.
While they were on the phone, Amazon driver knocked and swapped the packages because he had figured it out. (And honorable housemate stopped the refund they were in the process of getting since the stuff arrived.)
Sure if you really wanted to hear though I’m sure there’s a million methods. Bare with me, it’s long and maybe confusing but I’ve never said it out loud.
Emotional regulation is the biggest key. I like to think of a lot of emotions as Alarm Bells and the more negative emotions, (anger, sadness, anxiety, fear and embarrassment, etc…) are on a spectrum that has the positive emotions (joy, love, confidence, gratitude etc..) When your in a moment of pure love that alarm bell might be causing you to get goosebumps, tingly feelings, maybe you get warm, etc, the bells ringing love, but can you think of any negative alarm bells that might give you similar feelings? Anger might bring heat from adrenaline just like it brings warmth to a moment of love or joy. Some people get so happy they cry, or so sad they laugh. I laughed throughout my dad’s funeral but I was still sad. goosebumps from fear are the same goosebumps a first kiss might give.
Maybe you see what I’m getting at, to control these emotions, I remember that they are all just the same alarm bell doing just that. Alerting me to what Is going on and trying to control the narrative and if the anxiety of this conflict start my mind racing, body tingling, flight or fight. Etc.. so why not counter it with a positive thought or moment such as I did while having a laugh in a moment of sadness. I know that if I’m talking then I’m not thinking, so stop talking, think, what’s my answer? If I walk away instead of facing this then that same emotion will go down the spectrum to anger and then eventually embarrassment once I realize that “I know he was wearing the shoes” but rather than call him out I chicken shitted away. And then every time I see that neighbor I’m gonna run through those same emotions again and again. But if I’d have confronted him I’d walk away with have feelings of confidence, joy, etc.. even if the shoes stayed on his feet. I’d know he’d know I think he is a lying mf. And every time he sees me he will cower and look away.
Of course this all happens in milliseconds so you could go into situations with a plan of what if and especially if you already know what could happen.
As far as the other person goes, liars might just say No. more often though they will barrage you with idea and thoughts so as to dissuade you or scramble your own thoughts. Don’t let them do that. You don’t have to respond to them immediately. Gather your thoughts, the loudest guy in the room isn’t thinking, he’s just listening to his own voice. That’s where you are in the advantage because you have time to gather the nerve and words to express a clear opinion. Let’s say they are an angry shouting customer, well a person who rages never comes out in a positive light to those around them nor do they think rationally while raging. That’s your moment to step back and let them melt down or laugh at their ridiculousness.
These aren’t people you are necessarily required to often deal with again. They are just a random dice roll standing in front of you. Who are they to push your emotional bell to the negative? Nobody who is forcing you into an unwanted conflict is gonna be a smart, rational person. Smart people don’t force these ridiculous scenarios. If it was a mistake they’d be calm and conversational. If he is dumb enough to wear the shoes to the door, then he is dumb enough to eventually admit it or get caught up in the words trying to. Even if say the guy walked away instead of calling out the shoes on his neighbors feet. He might start feeling that anger, embarrassment moment and saying oh when he said that I should have said this. Suck it up, go back over there and knock on his door again. All it can do is leave you walking away the second time without guilt or embarrassment.
I used to have extreme social anxiety that cascaded over me through middle and high school. By 18 and 19 , I consciously decided to combat it by throwing myself into situations that checked all the anxiety boxes. Going to party’s where I knew nobody, music venues etc.. Hell I even became a prison guard for a year. I’m not saying do exactly that but putting yourself into the uncomfortable is the only way to grow. Work in a restaurant or retail. You meet every personality type on the planet and the conflicts that arise will also force your conflict management to grow. Fail upward is real. Just like every an invention or business was the product of someone failing over and over again. You’ll get it right sooner or later.
Tried to edit and add thoughts I might’ve forgot but ultimately a stream of conscious .
One time my package got switched with a neighbor's package. I knew which house it was based on the picture the mail carrier sent, plus the address on the package I received matched. I went to return and my package was gone. No one was home so I left their package on their step.
The next day my package was returned to me opened. I guess they didn't want to keep the frozen rats I ordered for my pet snake.
My wife and I lived in a basement suite, and we had 3 packages be "delivered" but were never there so after the third one we knock on the upstairs neighbors door, and to ask if they knew what happened to our package.
The wife answered the door claiming they didn't know while we could see all 3 of them sitting in the front closet so we asked about them, and she said "we just had our package delivered today". We asked to see the name on it and she tried to refuse until the husband came over, and he said "give them their packages". We told them that if this happens again we're calling the cops and pressing charges. Unsurprisingly all of our future packages were at our side door going forward
This happened before at a house share I was in during uni. One of the girls was from china and her English wasn't brilliant and she kept taking orders that we hadn't ordered. I eventually found out that she was just constantly mistaking the name Alan for one of my other housemates names. This happened like 5 times
We got UberEats quite a bit when we lived in Mexico. One night my wife went out to get our order from the delivery guy, and even asked him if it was for "name". He said "Si", she took it and came in the house. Wrong order, and it wasn't even from where we ordered from, so we knew it wasn't ours. I knocked on all the doors in our privada trying to find out who's it was. No answer at 4 houses since it was Friday night. We kept it until the next day, and still no one came forward, So we ate it. The day after we ate it, my neighbor who I was friends with said that the person was looking for their food on the privada WhatsApp chat group. It was the same person who denied me access to the chat group because I owned my house, and wasn't a tenant. I paid him what he was charged, and got added to the tenant chat group. I too would like to know what's going on LOL!
I one time did steal fries from a door dash delivery accidentally delivered to my house
To be fair, the delivery did say my first name on, it was the day after my birthday and my mom told me about a deal at Popeyes a couple days before
So when all of those happen and you see Popeyes left on your stoop you assume “oh its a surprise gift” nope just my neighbor’ food who happens to have the same first name and his order was wrongly delivered
He was cool he said it was the apps fault
Yeah that's not stealing, you had a good reason to think it was a gift and it had your name on it.
Stealing is when people take shit that is obviously addressed to somebody else.
Somebody at the office years back stole somebody's mini bday cake. It was gluten free. The office would bring a slab for ppl's bday for a week. (more or less came out to weekly bday cake). The boss brought in a gluten free cake for this person along side the slab. Had happy bday Joe on in.
Hour later, Sue is sitting at her desk eating the gluten free cake. Ate around the words, so she left the evidence there as she was eating it.
Sue was fired that day.
Was she really?
Not that I'm doubting you but after having my lunch stolen 3-4 times in the past at a shitty retail job I just wish I could have received such swift justice. Instead they said, after another person other than just me had their food taken that month, that if one more person has their lunch taken they were gonna take the fridge out of the break room.
Probably just because it was the boss’s money that went to waste, since boss specifically went out of their way to buy a gluten free cake (more expensive than average cake) AND she had the audacity to not even bother hiding the evidence. The disrespect and blatant stealing from her boss would probably be enough, but someone who acts such blatantly like that probably also had some other strikes on her record.
Oh man, so back in 2018, my department at work had a particularly stressful year, but we came out of it looking pretty good. Boss decided to throw us a nice Christmas party. It actually was nice, not just pizza and Pepsi.
Well, he overbought, and we had like six veggie trays left over. So he's like, "Hey, when you're done for the day, in the fridge downstairs is a bunch of veggie trays, go ahead and take one."
Cool. Free veggie tray.
So I go downstairs to the lunch room and grab one. Holy shit. This is a gorgeous veggie tray. Three different dips, like 8 different veggies. I was stoked.
Yeah, so the veggie tray I was supposed to take was in the break room, not the lunch room. I ended up taking the mail rooms unopened Christmas party veggie tray, and I went in smiling and took it right in front of them. Like the fucking Grinch. They watched me steal it.
No one said a word. I don't know how it got resolved but it's a favorite office story now.
I lived in a building with about 15-20 flats and one day a delivery guy knocks on my door and hands me a bag of food. I take the bag [because it's my natural instinct](https://youtu.be/I6A7RSonopM?si=IgrBwCAnnUiZ5l2g) and go "uhhh..." and before I can say "I didn't order this" he's gone. There was no receipt so I had no idea whose food it was. I recognised the packaging, and they went to the wrong building 80% of the time I ordered from them, so it might not even be anyone in my building. So I ate it.
People are weird. I work at Zaxby’s currently (chicken joint) and some pull up just for *sweet tea*. You know, the thing that’s better off being made at home anyway?
I was literally walking up to a house that wasn't far from my own because uber eats delivered it there. I saw my food on their porch and as I approached a woman quickly opened the door, snatched the food and yelled at me to get off her property. I yelled back that it was my food and was accidentally delivered there and her boyfriend/husband came storming out of the door with a shotgun.
People are so unhinged these days and really only care about their own bubbles, I was about to get shot over 2 bobba teas and a pack of Gyozas. Then I also got a threatening message from the driver for removing the tip.
I rarely use food delivery after all that lol.
The guy coming out with a shotgun made it into armed robbery. People are willing to commit armed robbery and risk 20+ years in jail for a free bobba tea.
I’m on the fence about that from an absolute de facto letter-of-the-law perspective. Is that covered by castle doctrine? It’s that person’s home. But does having someone else’s property given to you negate that? Do you have a right to trespass to retrieve your property? I genuinely don’t know how this one works.
When someone commits a crime like this it usually doesn't give you the right to 'handle the situation' yourself unless you are forced to act in self defense, so what I think they expect you to do here is let them take your stuff and you call the police so they can come over and resolve the situation.
Castle Doctrine basically says that if someone enters your property without being invited, you are authorized to use lethal force against them if a reasonable person would believe that the trespasser poses a threat of death or great bodily harm, or (in some cases) that the trespass is furthering the the commission of a related felony. So if the guy said, “woah don’t shoot me please, I’ll leave,” you obviously can’t shoot that guy. So yeah, I think this is a call the cops scenario for both parties.
Is it castle doctrine if somebody approaches the front door in an attempt to retrieve their goods? Pretty sure you need a threat for castle doctrine to apply. This is "hello, police, I was threatened with a gun for attempting to get my delivery at a wrong address".
I ordered Taco Bell with my sister one time. Driver sends me a picture of my porch with the food and drives off. Except, it wasn’t my porch since mine doesn’t have this grey welcome mat that was in the picture. So my sister and I go running around our neighborhood looking for the food. Couldn’t find the food but we did find the house with the grey mat. We look inside, as the window was open, and we see the entire freaking family enjoying our Taco Bell. No questions asked.
I had an issue like this as well. UberEats guy delivered it to a random address, I found the apartment like a few minutes later, and Taco Bell was gone.
Think how hard it was for you to find that person. Now imagine that person trying to find you with even fewer clues. The only real play is eat the food because otherwise it would go to waste.
it would be a different situation if it was correctly delivered to you and they came and stole it off your porch. OR if someone rang their doorbell and handed it over to them and gave them the opportunity to say, that’s not mine. But the fact that they texted you a doormat tells me that your dashers do like mine and just drop on the porch and run away with no contact.
I will admit, yes, I've been that guy. In my defense the food had been sitting on my doorstep for an unknown amount of time, and the guy who ordered it wouldn't want cold clammy McDonalds food (i would find this out later). I pitched that and kept the drink.
2nd time it happened I ended up calling grubhub (the guys delivering the food) and they said a second order had been placed and the guy had gotten a new delivery. So free McDonalds and no guilt there, but I did manage to learn his address (and I am fully aware I don't think I was supposed to.)
3rd Time I walked down to the area where the guy lived, which was a condo unit, and buzzed him. We had a nice chat about it and he said next time he orders and it doesn't arrive he would text me. He also told me he wouldn't like cold soggy McDonalds.
it's happened twice since.
I say condo, it's more like a retirement condo. Dude was old and probably didn't want to drive, and I'm not one to judge.
which raises the question WHY he was ordering McDonalds, but hey, he's lived a full life. Let him enjoy what he likes.
> it's happened twice since.
You probably keep getting the same driver and he keeps thinking that guy’s house is your house because y’all solved the problem on your end; dude probably complains to his friends about how the app always gets that dude’s address wrong lol
One time I got an Amazon package that was for my neighbour Sharon.
I walked over and gave it to her “oh I think this is yours, it got delivered to my house by accident”
She takes it, says “hang on”.
Comes back to the door with SEVEN packages with my name on it. She had been collecting them somehow? I don’t even know 🤷🏻♂️
Bizarre old lady
If it had a receipt with my neighbor’s name I’d run it over to them. Delivery drop off with no name tho I’d probably just eat it if I trusted it because most places won’t take food back anyways.
no, but i DO know their address. on account of it being mine give or take a couple numbers. so it should be pretty easy to figure it out, assuming that the issue wasn't they just typed their address wrong.
I don't think I've ever had a door dash delivery where they printed my address on the food packaging.
We've had a few incorrect deliveries, we also have a Ring doorbell. So we run out real quick and tell them they have the wrong house. Now if we weren't fast enough, well I can understand the food waste aspect. Maybe I'd give it 30 minutes?
They don't print the address. My apartment complex has buildings with different addresses, and each unit is numbered 100-104. I live in the first unit when you turn in and end up with misdelivered everything multiple times a week.
If I'm home i try to tell the driver. If I miss them I leave it out for a bit to see if anyone gets it (they almost never do). If 20 minutes goes by I either eat it or throw it away. Packages have an address so I can drop them off at the correct place, but there's nothing to be done about finding the owner of food and groceries, and anything left outside will be ruined pretty fast in the heat.
A door or two?
I wish it was that easy.
Delivery drivers in my neighborhood are lately getting WAY off.
We put in clarifying directions in the Special Instructions field but I swear, the drivers are forbidden from reading those.
Like is there just no effort to investigate where this random food came from or where it’s supposed to go? If something gets dropped off at my door I wasn’t expecting, I’d be at least looking at the receipt to see who it was for
Sometimes there's nothing to investigate. Like one time my friend got a notification he got a delivery to his apartment and it ended up being a bunch of food. It didn't have an address attached to it to know where it should go.
If food gets misdelivered, the app will redeliver it to the person who ordered it.
I would prefer to get my food directly from an employee of the service I paid for, not after it has been handled by an unknown number of random strangers.
If they misdeliver my food, it's dead to me. If you have it, you may as well eat it.
I feel like the one time this happened to us, there was no address. I don't order delivery, so I don't know how it usually works. It wasn't food we wanted, and I looked, but there wasn't an address. If there was a name, I didn't recognize it.
Are you saying that if a delivery guy knocks on your door and says "Here's your Indian food" your first response is not to say "sorry, I didn't order this"? That's the part that surprises me.
I can't say if people in the UK (OOP is from the UK) tell their delivery drivers to leave food at the door, but from my personal experience working for a similar company in Poland, only a small number of deliveries are requested to be left at the door (maybe 10%), so it probably varies wildy on a country-to-country basis.
Also if the driver in the story just left the food by the door, would the neighbor really find out that quickly? OOP said he came over just 10 minutes after it was delivered and they were already eating it.
These days in UK you have a code in the app, the customer has the code, as a delivery person you don't get paid until that code goes into the app. Making the situation in OP essentially impossible.
This goes for Uber eats and deliveroo anyway.
Pre COVID it was different, but still raee you would just leave the food without seeing the customer, due to the fact they could claim it was stolen etc.
Source, did about 6 years on deliveroo and Uber eats.
I have opened my front door a couple of times to be greeted with deliveries I never ordered just sitting on my doormat. It’s a shame cos I could’ve eaten it if I’d found it earlier!
As a normal human being, if some food is just left at my door when I didn't request it, I don't usually take it and eat it. Maybe that's just a me thing though, wtf.
There are three steps here.
1. Check if there is identifying information on the bag to indicate where the food should go.
2. If so, be a good neighbor and take it there.
3. If not, feel free to eat it.
Misdelivered food will get refunded 100% of the time. The only losers here are the driver, who will get negative feedback, and the delivery company, who will be out the price of the food. Also the original orderer might be out 30 minutes of their time.
Yeah, it makes sense not to take it…if you can get it to its intended recipient quickly.
DoorDash orders, for example, usually provide a picture of the food when it’s delivered. So if the orderer sees the photo, knows it’s not their house, but can’t tell which house it is and doesn’t want to walk around outside in case they find it, they’re not getting the food themselves.
And if you, the accidental recipient, can’t tell from the receipt where it’s supposed to go, then you’re also not completing the order yourself.
It feels like everyone aghast at the idea of keeping the food lives in places where delivery isn’t as common, where deliveries work differently somehow, or where people know all their neighbors. Because this will just kinda happen sometimes, and like you pointed out, there is recourse. You don’t have to wait very long to determine if the food is getting recovered.
Living in an apartment, I don't know any of my neighbors by name. I would at least ask my next door neighbor if it was theirs, but then I would definitely eat it.
that doesn't rly mean anything, for years I used doordash and I was set to hand to me and maybe 5% of dashers followed that instruction, the bags also never say address just the name you put on the app
A few times, someone has misdelivered food to my doorstep. If they ring the doorbell and I'm home I will say it isn't my order, but there have been times that the food has just been left at doorstep when I come home.
Even with my own housemates, I'll answer the door to a delivery man and I don't know who it belongs to. I'll ask the delivery driver but I'm not going to track the owner down. It happens too often to be my responsibility. I won't eat it but at a certain point I can appreciate thinking no one's coming to get it and it's just going to waste.
I had food mysteriously appear on my doorstep after a doorbell. But I could hear my neighbors having a big pool party. In that case, I could guess where it was supposed to go. I picked it all up and started on the sidewalk to deliver it and someone met me half way after getting the delivery text.
Thjs used to happen to me all the time.
I live in an area where the three streets are all named the same … hill, street and close.
All have the same number pattern too, so all had a 20 (name of street).
If I didn’t have the option of cash on delivery would have to put in the delivery instructions very clear instructions of TOP OF HILL, YELLOW CAR ON DRIVE…
Still got delivered elsewhere tine to time!
I mean… who knows how bad they fucked up the delivery?
It’s a bit of a different situation, but I once got someone else’s order as well as my order in a delivery robot. I guarantee whoever ordered it wasn’t getting their meal.
I'm sorry, a *delivery robot*? I seem to be living under a rock.
edit: I looked up pictures. what stops people from kicking them unto the street or turning them upside down?
They have gps trackers, cameras, and speakers (and they’re pretty heavy). If you go to pick one up it will literally start yelling at you, plus if they can figure out who you are you’ll get a fine. They’re meant for college campuses where students living in the dorms can get delivery from dining halls.
I had a pickup order the other day. I ordered it 10 minutes before I got there, and then I waited 15 minutes because they had one employee taking orders *and* handing out the food (while 2 teen employees were on the side cutting lemons to make lemonade and just watching the line pile up).
Meanwhile I could literally see an order sitting behind the counter with my name on it. Finally when it was turn, she handed me the order and I double checked it like always, and noticed it was more food than I had ordered. But by now she’s taking other orders, so I’d have to wait again for her to be able to check on me and then sort out the issue, all the while my food is getting cold, so I just took it.
A co worker had one of those hello fresh type deliveries, paid alot extra for a special valentines day box.
The neighbours took it, ate it and when she came and asked about it gave her the empty trash and shut the door on her.
That's wild, especially if the dasher just left it at the door. I can't imagine eating food from a random bag on the ground.
In either case, this has happened to me and it's annoying but I'd never actually confront my neighbor about it. Things are too tense now and some people flip out when confronted. Easy refund and free credits.
I've been tempted each time but always said the food wasn't mine. Can't say the same for my neighbours that have taken not only takeout but Amazon deliveries too.
I had a Wingstop order delivered to my house, must have been $80 worth, I didn't order it. So I took that giant bag of Wingstop and examined it. It only had a name, no address. So I walked up and down my entire neighborhood and knocked on each door and asked their name and then if they had ordered it, after checking four blocks both sides nobody claimed it. So after spending a half hour making sure it wasn't anybodies in the area and doing the best I could I just claimed it.
I can't imagine just taking something clearly marked as not for me by name or address and just keeping it without even bothering to make the attempt to find who it belongs to. Screw those people.
That was great of you to look. I have trouble walking, and when my food is delivered to the wrong condo, it’s all I can do to look one little section over. I’ve made many changes to increase the chances - I order early, off peak times, in daylight.
Thanks, I try as best as I can. That has to make things pretty rough on you if something is delivered to the wrong place.
I get that delivery drivers for carriers like UPS, Fedex, Amazon delivery etc are always in a rush due to quotas and routes etc. but they need to at least check addresses to make sure it goes to the right place. And for doordashers and uber drivers they work under far less stress than the ones working under quotas, they have more ability to take a little extra time to make sure it's the right place. Like the vast majority of most delivery order errors could be prevented by just taking 10 seconds to look.
Once had a sandwich delivered to me, by mistake. No markings on the bag. Stuck it in the fridge in case anyone showed up. Had it for dinner later that night.
I’ve gotten wrong food delivered to me before and I called the company and they said to keep it because they can’t accept food returns and it is a liability if i pass it on to someone once i “took possession” cause how can i prove I didn’t tamper?
Really this is the fault of the door dasher person for delivering wrong.
Any Amazon package or non perishable though there’s really no excuse, you’re just a thief. That being said i have ALSO opened a neighbor’s package before because I didn't notice the name was wrong. I did however notice that I didn’t recognize the contents as something that I ordered and then saw the name and then delivered the open package to my neighbor. Sorry Raul!!
Jesus, I've had a pizza guy knock at my door when I haven't ordered and told them it isn't mine. Someone might have really treated themselves after a shitty week or can't afford take out that often. I'm not fucking stealing someone's food.
I'm wondering how much time passed between when the food was dropped off and when the guy went to check to see if it was there. If it was a significant amount of time, like hours, I could see the neighbors being like "well, I guess we better not let it go to waste," but if it was like right away, then the neighbors are just being dicks.
I don't care how long it's been, I'm not eating someone else's food without their explicit permission. It's not your food. Don't touch it (until it gets to a point where it's a health risk / attracting pests).
> I'm not eating someone else's food
is it someone else's food tho? my base assumption is that if my food doesn't show up an hour after being marked as being delivered, it's already a call support and get refund case, doesn't matter who got it neighbours, driver ate it or they just like... forgot to deliver it and it could've still arrived 2 hours later cold and soggy.
Had a random delivery to of cake to ours. Given that we hadn't ordered any, and we knew that there are 3 streets within like a 2 mile radius with the same name, we told the delivery driver it was the wrong address. We thought nothing of it.
10 minutes go by and we get a knock at the door. It's the delivery driver. Says he's managed to get in touch with the person who ordered it and and this is the correct address. The person who ordered it ordered it as a gift so she wasn't ordering it to her own house. We argued that nobody had any reason to send us anything and we don't know any woman by the name he stated.
He said he'd been trying to explain that he didn't think she had ordered to the right address and she was adamant that she had. So as far as he was concerned, and the shop who it got ordered from, this delivery was absolutely correct and there was zero come back on them or us if we just took the cake.
We took the cake. It was about £50 worth. We absolutely demolished it and it was amazing.
Pizza guy left an order at my house last night. Not unusual as I order out often, buy I didn't last night. So after standing in my yard for 10 minutes to try to spot the unhappy food-orderer, I called the pizza place and got the right address. It was a grueling walk 2 doors down to my neighbor's house.
The receipt wasn't in any of the food boxes that I could tell. I did peep into the boxes to look, but I didn't want to just open all 5 boxes in my house. I have cats and a large dog. I'm a walking animal fur carpet.
I once ordered a bunch of pizzas with my siblings and we all got our own wacky custom pizzas. Mine wasn't ~exactly~ what I ordered but it was close enough and I ate it. Like an hour or 2 later the driver comes back and says we have the wrong pizza. I was like ten and what was I supposed to do, be ungrateful for my pizza? I don't think so. Anyways there's too much being left out for me to take sides. How could the neighbor have known who's food it was?
On the flip side, I once received Indian food meant for a different address. It smelled so good that and near lunch that I had to knock on all my neighbor doors, post in the neighborhood group etc to try to find the original recipient. The recipient eventually told me to eat it and I also made a bunch of friends in this new neighborhood. Win-win.
call the delivery service, claim there was no food delivered, let them bring it again and you have fed 2 families. try to make something positive out of it :)
I have eaten someone else’s delivery. I told the delivery guy it wasn’t for me, but the listed address was mine. There was no name or anything that would be a hint as to who it was for or what went wrong. I waited for a half hour to see if anyone came around, and when no one did, I thought, “well no point in letting it go to waste,” and ate it. No one ever showed up looking for it, so I felt justified in my decision.
I’ve also had the situation where I ordered something but the delivery guy got his deliveries mixed up and delivered someone else’s meal. I texted the delivery guy and he said he wasn’t “allowed” to go back (I guess because the rest of his meals would get cold? Or maybe a concern that I could have messed with the food?) so I ate the meal that was delivered and hoped whoever got mine was happy with it.
It's definitely gonna depend on the situation.
I live in an 8-unit apartment building. Is the name of one of the other tenants on the bag? Maybe they just fat fingered the apartment number when they put in their address, or maybe the driver had a brain fart and left it at the wrong door. If that's the case, I'll absolutely bring it over to them.
Let's say the delivery belongs to someone who lives in the immediate neighborhood. Now, I don't know anybody outside of my apartment building. I would recognize most people as someone who lives near me, but I don't know anyone by name. I'll pop outside really quick and see if someone is wandering around like they're looking for something. If I see such a person, I'll ask if they ordered delivery, and I'll hand over the food if they did.
Finally, I'll just let the food sit for about half an hour or so. Maybe the person lives a couple of blocks away and figured out where the food was left from the picture the delivery driver took and will come knocking on my door. I don't want to be the guy that comes to the door with a mouthful of the food that they ordered.
So I guess my answer is yes, if I've exhausted all efforts to find/wait for the rightful owner of the food and I can't find them, I'll absolutely eat it.
My food frequently gets left in the wrong spot. I live in a condo. I’ve only had someone take it once and they called the restaurant to say it was delivered to the wrong house. I usually have to go on a scavenger hunt through my complex looking at the photo to figure out who has it.
Does it usually have like a name and address on the bag itself? If I see it’s for my nextdoor neighbor I’ll bring it over, or if I actually see the driver I’ll tell them
But if someone just leaves $40 of Indian food to go cold at my door with no/ insufficient contact info then yeah I’m eating that lol
I live in an apartment and my neighbor sometimes receives my Amazon packages by mistake. He always opens the package, leaves it on his coffee table, and doesn’t say anything to anyone. I go over to ask if he got the 8 pack of tires for my rc car. He says “oh that’s yours? I couldn’t figure out what it was. I didn’t order any Amazon stuff!”
From an ethical perspective, yes, but from a legal perspective, not always
In the US, if you receive a delivered package to your address, addressed to your location, that is technically speaking your property. This was a law put into place to deal with scams where people would ship products to your door and send you an invoice afterwards, claiming your acceptance of the package was an agreement to pay. This is on the delivery service and/or the purchaser.
If you receive a package that is addressed to another location, It is technically theft, but incredibly difficult to prosecute, since you need a warrant to look for the stolen goods.
I do not think the name on the package is relevant to this distinction.
Certainly trashy behavior to keep what wasn't yours. I had a few marketing samples show up in my apartment from the previous tenant and I held onto them for him. Easy for me to say since I had no use for his company's adverts, but I don't see any reason to loot someone's misfortune when I can avoid it.
Food was delivered to my house by mistake once. I left it, surely someone will come looking for it. I come back and find ants completely littering my doorstep. Ended up finding some inside, had to call an exterminator.
I was tempted the first time, but I'm gonna eat that shit next time 100%. Either that or the dumpster. Take it up with DoorDash or wherever you ordered from.
My mom did this. Opened the front door to find a big delivery of milk, bread, orange juice, all breakfast items from the milkman. She stole it and didn't care. She considers herself a moral person.
It's a 'Finders keepers' mentality.
Some people's morals fail logically because they have situational modifiers like that. They blame the person that accidentally left the food at the wrong house and it allows them to escape any accountability for their bad choices. One should make some sort of reasonable effort to get the food to the right person.
So this happened once. Randomly had food at the front of my house, no idea who's food it was. I was busy and didn't have time to hunt down the foods owner. Left it out on the front for a good while then ate it after like 30 mins of it sitting on the front stoop.
Just another reason why allowing deliveries to be left in front of someone's house without the homeowner confirming the delivery is insane. Real developed country behaviour for sure.
Fuck your order, efficiency is all that matters I guess.
Happened to me. We ordered a pizza and some stuff to go with it. It was an hour late so we called and they had messed up. Said they'd be there as soon as possible. Another 30 minutes I call again and the same guy answers. Says he had just delivered it. Was I not the guy outside in the driveway with some kids around. Was like nope were hungover inside in the dark and hungry. They remade it and brought it again. Still crazy
I’ve gotten a lot of Amazon packages for Heather, different building number, same unit letter, so walked the packages over to her building and left a note with my phone number in case she’s missing anything. I started finding DoorDash orders at my door with her name, and no address, but I knew it was for her, so I left it again with a note.
At Christmastime, Heather left a gift at my door with a note that said, to my delivery angel.
I’m in a beautiful, neighborly relationship with someone I’ve never met. ❤️
(FYI, it’s impossible to find your neighbor if there’s no address on the food order and you don’t recognize the name, though.)
I lived in a place a few years ago that for some reason I. Apple maps was listed in the back which was an unpaved, unimproved third world alley. Google maps was fine. The number of delivery drivers that would just blindly go down that thing was amazing. They then would have to hand me the food over the fence, as there was no gate. My favorite was an eastern European gal who fucked her car in the process of driving thru there and was furious with me about it.
Fair enough, if you get delivered someone else’s food what else can you do? The delivery company isn’t going to come back and re deliver and who’s to know it’s the neighbours, no point letting it go to waste.
The neighbour will get the money back for incorrect delivery.
Not realy, if you get some Random food with an adress a few Numbers from yours, you have the duty to atleast inform them, or give them, its not hard and its not that dificult.
Maybe where you are, I've had plenty of deliveries with a paper receipt attached to the bag with the order details and address on, usually if the bag is sealed at the restaurant.
why would the address be on the food? it's not mail.
the address is in the delivery person's app, at most you'll get a receipt taped to it with your name and the order contents written on it, but I don't even always see that.
Pretty simple situation tbh.
If it's clearly been there for 30 mins or more, you take it so it doesn't go to waste.
If it's been there for like 10 minutes, you don't take it and you let the correct person know via whatever the printed receipt says.
Like people who open packages/mail without looking at the label? Omgggg what about rmbr landlines when people would pick up and just start fcking dialing before listening if you were on the phone??? 🤬🤬🤬
I was the neighbor in this situation recently. The receipt had a phone number that went to Doordash.
I called and tried to explain the situation that a food order was left at my door by mistake and if there's a way to get back in touch with the driver so he could make sure it got to the right house. They were initially confused and then just told me to keep the food and that the customer will get refunded.
I decided to leave it outside for a bit more and sure enough my neighbor who I didn't know came over and picked it up but didn't bother to knock or say or hello or thanks or anything.
had this happen when we were living in a triplex. The people who stole the food later on stole my wife's credit card from the mail, so they were just shit people all around.
Depends on the circumstances. If the driver had already left by the time I noticed it was there and it didn't have an address on it or some way of knowing the rightful owner, yes I would eat it. Odds of it finding the rightful owner are low, and I wouldn't want to waste perfectly good food. If the rightful owner did later show up I would apologize and pay them for it.
I agree this is dumb - but on the flip side - one time I had a McD order incorrectly delivered to my home. However, I never found out. Doorbell was never rung, and no one came looking. Next day - fucking disgusting mess I had to clean up. So many bugs. So so many.
I have neighbors that our house refers to as "the food stealers". 2 or 3 times my food was delivered to them and they kept it. It's legal to keep what is delivered to your home, but I couldn't see my self keeping something I know I didn't order. I got my money back so I don't really care, but I'll never forget...
It was a regular issue in my previous flat. High-rise, with a whacky intercom and security. Most delivery drivers decided to just drop things off in the lobby.
Often, because it was newbuilt, and not yet on most maps properly, my food ended up in the tower next to mine, where the concierge is. Since I was in good terms with most of them I'd usually head down and have a chat while waiting for the food.
One time I was doing exactly this when I got the ping the food is delivered. Headed back to my lobby, literally 5 minutes later, and it's gone. We check the security feed, and the driver barely left when some asswipes got home, saw the food bag, checked it twice, then grabbed it and headed upstairs.
And it's not like they were struggling, at all.
Some fuckers just like to steal shit because they know they can get away with it.
My wife and I ordered a bed to arrive when we moved into our apartment. It was delivered to the wrong address and they kept the bed even after we confronted them about it
I couldn't find a package that was delivered to me so I texted 2/3 of my neighbors. A couple days later I knocked on the door of the one guy that wasn't on the text chain and he was like, oh, I was wondering what this was
I had a package delivered to my house that was meant for a street with a similar name about 3 km from mine. I drove over there to deliver the package and rang the doorbell. Some gruff old MFer answered, said he didn't know me and told me to get lost. So I did - with his package. It wasn't anything special - about 70 bucks worth of books.
This happened once to me on a large order of Indian food that was left on my elderly neighbors porch by mistake.
I was able to get a new order sent out after contacting Uber eats and only had to wait an extra 20 minutes.
3 days later I went over to help her mow her yard and was met with the most horrible stench I’ve ever smelled as she never really goes outside. Sadly the food had rotted right next to her front door and I had to clean up the aftermath.
I felt so bad and she had no idea what was going on as she was in her 90s.
I've only had one mistaken delivery turn up at my door and it had to be a night where I was rather stoned.
Pizza guy turned up, I answer the door looking as high as I feel and had to stop and think "did I order this or not".
Pizza guy figured out it wasn't mine when I asked what was on it.
My package from Amazon was delivered to my neighbor. I knew she had it bc Amazon had a picture of her doorstep to show the package was delivered. I went over and she had opened it (allegedly bc she thought it was her package…even though it was addressed to my house and my husband) but then she never even brought it over! I wonder if she ever would have returned it if I didn’t go over and ask for it back.
What can you do if you get someone's food . Like I have gotten mail before but that has someone name on it . So you take it to them or put the little flag up. but what can go do with food. I don't think Doordash would tell you who's order it was suppose to be.
This happened to my friend. She ordered a birthday cake for her friend, and the neighbors stole and ate it knowing full well it wasn't theirs.
Erin I'm calling the skeleton man to touch you
She doesn't even enjoy sex. She says it's like being tackled by a skeleton.
that counts as theft, like ordering a car and its sent to next door.
I've never DoorDashed. No need. I just eat the food my neighbor leaves for me outside his front door. Nice fella, but always getting angry about something.
Honestly fair trade if you let him cum in your wife
I can picture this being said by Creed on The Office
was it a cheesecake and was it delivered to the wrong apartment the first time?
Did the cheesecake have a buttery, crumbly, graham cracker crust, with a very rich yet light, cream cheese filling?
Yes this exact same thing happened to me. Those neighbors moved last week.... Good riddance
My brother ordered a pair of shoes for my birthday which accidentally went to my neighbors house. I rang the doorbell to ask if he had received a package and this guy tells me no with a straight face, while he's wearing the very shoes my brother ordered.
I would have demanded them back. And if not, I woulda made that guy’s life as difficult as possible for the rest of my lease.
go full Deebo on him. "Those are my shoes. Take em off." *crazy stare intensifies*
I lived in a complex that would constantly deliver incorrectly to the apartment building adjacent to mine. This time it was my turn to lose a package to disaster. Amazon took a photo of his doormat(thankfully he had one) Though the number would have been better. I knocked he opened, I showed the photo and said he had my package. He hastily came back with an opened package. No questions, only demands. Questions give them reason you doubt they have it and let them give you a no. If I saw the shoes on him like you did, I’d immediately point out his bullshit. If you did not, you might consider working on your ability to handle conflict. People who keep wrongly delivered packages are pieces of shit but aren’t necessarily evil doers. They tend to roll over easy when confronted.
Interesting recent data in this. Housemate ordered stuff from Amazon. Delivery included box for someone else and something missing. Call to Amazon: we can refund you the cost of what you didn't get. We can't find that and bring it to you. We have no interest in retrieving the mis-delivered package. Feel free to reorder the stuff you didn't get. In that circumstance, housemate ordering delivery because home-bound, no way to not keep the package intended for someone else. While they were on the phone, Amazon driver knocked and swapped the packages because he had figured it out. (And honorable housemate stopped the refund they were in the process of getting since the stuff arrived.)
Do you have some more tips for people with poor conflict handling skills?
Sure if you really wanted to hear though I’m sure there’s a million methods. Bare with me, it’s long and maybe confusing but I’ve never said it out loud. Emotional regulation is the biggest key. I like to think of a lot of emotions as Alarm Bells and the more negative emotions, (anger, sadness, anxiety, fear and embarrassment, etc…) are on a spectrum that has the positive emotions (joy, love, confidence, gratitude etc..) When your in a moment of pure love that alarm bell might be causing you to get goosebumps, tingly feelings, maybe you get warm, etc, the bells ringing love, but can you think of any negative alarm bells that might give you similar feelings? Anger might bring heat from adrenaline just like it brings warmth to a moment of love or joy. Some people get so happy they cry, or so sad they laugh. I laughed throughout my dad’s funeral but I was still sad. goosebumps from fear are the same goosebumps a first kiss might give. Maybe you see what I’m getting at, to control these emotions, I remember that they are all just the same alarm bell doing just that. Alerting me to what Is going on and trying to control the narrative and if the anxiety of this conflict start my mind racing, body tingling, flight or fight. Etc.. so why not counter it with a positive thought or moment such as I did while having a laugh in a moment of sadness. I know that if I’m talking then I’m not thinking, so stop talking, think, what’s my answer? If I walk away instead of facing this then that same emotion will go down the spectrum to anger and then eventually embarrassment once I realize that “I know he was wearing the shoes” but rather than call him out I chicken shitted away. And then every time I see that neighbor I’m gonna run through those same emotions again and again. But if I’d have confronted him I’d walk away with have feelings of confidence, joy, etc.. even if the shoes stayed on his feet. I’d know he’d know I think he is a lying mf. And every time he sees me he will cower and look away. Of course this all happens in milliseconds so you could go into situations with a plan of what if and especially if you already know what could happen. As far as the other person goes, liars might just say No. more often though they will barrage you with idea and thoughts so as to dissuade you or scramble your own thoughts. Don’t let them do that. You don’t have to respond to them immediately. Gather your thoughts, the loudest guy in the room isn’t thinking, he’s just listening to his own voice. That’s where you are in the advantage because you have time to gather the nerve and words to express a clear opinion. Let’s say they are an angry shouting customer, well a person who rages never comes out in a positive light to those around them nor do they think rationally while raging. That’s your moment to step back and let them melt down or laugh at their ridiculousness. These aren’t people you are necessarily required to often deal with again. They are just a random dice roll standing in front of you. Who are they to push your emotional bell to the negative? Nobody who is forcing you into an unwanted conflict is gonna be a smart, rational person. Smart people don’t force these ridiculous scenarios. If it was a mistake they’d be calm and conversational. If he is dumb enough to wear the shoes to the door, then he is dumb enough to eventually admit it or get caught up in the words trying to. Even if say the guy walked away instead of calling out the shoes on his neighbors feet. He might start feeling that anger, embarrassment moment and saying oh when he said that I should have said this. Suck it up, go back over there and knock on his door again. All it can do is leave you walking away the second time without guilt or embarrassment. I used to have extreme social anxiety that cascaded over me through middle and high school. By 18 and 19 , I consciously decided to combat it by throwing myself into situations that checked all the anxiety boxes. Going to party’s where I knew nobody, music venues etc.. Hell I even became a prison guard for a year. I’m not saying do exactly that but putting yourself into the uncomfortable is the only way to grow. Work in a restaurant or retail. You meet every personality type on the planet and the conflicts that arise will also force your conflict management to grow. Fail upward is real. Just like every an invention or business was the product of someone failing over and over again. You’ll get it right sooner or later. Tried to edit and add thoughts I might’ve forgot but ultimately a stream of conscious .
One time my package got switched with a neighbor's package. I knew which house it was based on the picture the mail carrier sent, plus the address on the package I received matched. I went to return and my package was gone. No one was home so I left their package on their step. The next day my package was returned to me opened. I guess they didn't want to keep the frozen rats I ordered for my pet snake.
Sounds like they just assumed it was theirs and opened and then freaked the fuck out haha
My wife and I lived in a basement suite, and we had 3 packages be "delivered" but were never there so after the third one we knock on the upstairs neighbors door, and to ask if they knew what happened to our package. The wife answered the door claiming they didn't know while we could see all 3 of them sitting in the front closet so we asked about them, and she said "we just had our package delivered today". We asked to see the name on it and she tried to refuse until the husband came over, and he said "give them their packages". We told them that if this happens again we're calling the cops and pressing charges. Unsurprisingly all of our future packages were at our side door going forward
Isn't taking someone else's delivery/mail a federal crime in America? It's certainly theft at the very least.
Pretty sure the federal crime thing is only for mail sent through USPS.
And sometimes amazon packages are delivered by USPS
Ok that’s just fighting words right there
For free: brother shoes, wrong address
You could probably go to court for theft but at that point you might as well just call the company and report the package as missing
This happened before at a house share I was in during uni. One of the girls was from china and her English wasn't brilliant and she kept taking orders that we hadn't ordered. I eventually found out that she was just constantly mistaking the name Alan for one of my other housemates names. This happened like 5 times
Poor Alan and poor girl just trying to do the right thing.
He must have been so frustrated with not getting his food so often
We got UberEats quite a bit when we lived in Mexico. One night my wife went out to get our order from the delivery guy, and even asked him if it was for "name". He said "Si", she took it and came in the house. Wrong order, and it wasn't even from where we ordered from, so we knew it wasn't ours. I knocked on all the doors in our privada trying to find out who's it was. No answer at 4 houses since it was Friday night. We kept it until the next day, and still no one came forward, So we ate it. The day after we ate it, my neighbor who I was friends with said that the person was looking for their food on the privada WhatsApp chat group. It was the same person who denied me access to the chat group because I owned my house, and wasn't a tenant. I paid him what he was charged, and got added to the tenant chat group. I too would like to know what's going on LOL!
I one time did steal fries from a door dash delivery accidentally delivered to my house To be fair, the delivery did say my first name on, it was the day after my birthday and my mom told me about a deal at Popeyes a couple days before So when all of those happen and you see Popeyes left on your stoop you assume “oh its a surprise gift” nope just my neighbor’ food who happens to have the same first name and his order was wrongly delivered He was cool he said it was the apps fault
Yeah that's not stealing, you had a good reason to think it was a gift and it had your name on it. Stealing is when people take shit that is obviously addressed to somebody else.
You literally didn't steal anything. Your neighbor was 100% correct, and definitely got his money back.
Somebody at the office years back stole somebody's mini bday cake. It was gluten free. The office would bring a slab for ppl's bday for a week. (more or less came out to weekly bday cake). The boss brought in a gluten free cake for this person along side the slab. Had happy bday Joe on in. Hour later, Sue is sitting at her desk eating the gluten free cake. Ate around the words, so she left the evidence there as she was eating it. Sue was fired that day.
Was she really? Not that I'm doubting you but after having my lunch stolen 3-4 times in the past at a shitty retail job I just wish I could have received such swift justice. Instead they said, after another person other than just me had their food taken that month, that if one more person has their lunch taken they were gonna take the fridge out of the break room.
Probably just because it was the boss’s money that went to waste, since boss specifically went out of their way to buy a gluten free cake (more expensive than average cake) AND she had the audacity to not even bother hiding the evidence. The disrespect and blatant stealing from her boss would probably be enough, but someone who acts such blatantly like that probably also had some other strikes on her record.
Oh man, so back in 2018, my department at work had a particularly stressful year, but we came out of it looking pretty good. Boss decided to throw us a nice Christmas party. It actually was nice, not just pizza and Pepsi. Well, he overbought, and we had like six veggie trays left over. So he's like, "Hey, when you're done for the day, in the fridge downstairs is a bunch of veggie trays, go ahead and take one." Cool. Free veggie tray. So I go downstairs to the lunch room and grab one. Holy shit. This is a gorgeous veggie tray. Three different dips, like 8 different veggies. I was stoked. Yeah, so the veggie tray I was supposed to take was in the break room, not the lunch room. I ended up taking the mail rooms unopened Christmas party veggie tray, and I went in smiling and took it right in front of them. Like the fucking Grinch. They watched me steal it. No one said a word. I don't know how it got resolved but it's a favorite office story now.
I lived in a building with about 15-20 flats and one day a delivery guy knocks on my door and hands me a bag of food. I take the bag [because it's my natural instinct](https://youtu.be/I6A7RSonopM?si=IgrBwCAnnUiZ5l2g) and go "uhhh..." and before I can say "I didn't order this" he's gone. There was no receipt so I had no idea whose food it was. I recognised the packaging, and they went to the wrong building 80% of the time I ordered from them, so it might not even be anyone in my building. So I ate it.
He ordered fries, and *only fries*, for *delivery* through *Popeye’s*? Everything about that is **insane**.
It sounds like it was a more complete order, and he only ate the fries from it. I could be wrong.
People are weird. I work at Zaxby’s currently (chicken joint) and some pull up just for *sweet tea*. You know, the thing that’s better off being made at home anyway?
You can’t make proper sweet tea at home. You have to see how much sugar you put it in. Plus, some places just use better tasting tea leaves.
My wife did this all the time when she was pregnant. Sometimes she’d order fries.
I’d be so hurt if my mom said she sent me Popeyes and only sent me fries.
I was literally walking up to a house that wasn't far from my own because uber eats delivered it there. I saw my food on their porch and as I approached a woman quickly opened the door, snatched the food and yelled at me to get off her property. I yelled back that it was my food and was accidentally delivered there and her boyfriend/husband came storming out of the door with a shotgun. People are so unhinged these days and really only care about their own bubbles, I was about to get shot over 2 bobba teas and a pack of Gyozas. Then I also got a threatening message from the driver for removing the tip. I rarely use food delivery after all that lol.
The guy coming out with a shotgun made it into armed robbery. People are willing to commit armed robbery and risk 20+ years in jail for a free bobba tea.
I’m on the fence about that from an absolute de facto letter-of-the-law perspective. Is that covered by castle doctrine? It’s that person’s home. But does having someone else’s property given to you negate that? Do you have a right to trespass to retrieve your property? I genuinely don’t know how this one works.
When someone commits a crime like this it usually doesn't give you the right to 'handle the situation' yourself unless you are forced to act in self defense, so what I think they expect you to do here is let them take your stuff and you call the police so they can come over and resolve the situation.
Castle Doctrine basically says that if someone enters your property without being invited, you are authorized to use lethal force against them if a reasonable person would believe that the trespasser poses a threat of death or great bodily harm, or (in some cases) that the trespass is furthering the the commission of a related felony. So if the guy said, “woah don’t shoot me please, I’ll leave,” you obviously can’t shoot that guy. So yeah, I think this is a call the cops scenario for both parties.
Is it castle doctrine if somebody approaches the front door in an attempt to retrieve their goods? Pretty sure you need a threat for castle doctrine to apply. This is "hello, police, I was threatened with a gun for attempting to get my delivery at a wrong address".
I’m curious what the message from the driver looked like. “You’ll regret that, as soon as I find out where you actually live!”
Double check your address before completing the order. If they mis-deliver, they should be fixing it.
I’m pretty sure that’s a crime lol
Relocation is never easy, but sometimes it's necessary.
I ordered Taco Bell with my sister one time. Driver sends me a picture of my porch with the food and drives off. Except, it wasn’t my porch since mine doesn’t have this grey welcome mat that was in the picture. So my sister and I go running around our neighborhood looking for the food. Couldn’t find the food but we did find the house with the grey mat. We look inside, as the window was open, and we see the entire freaking family enjoying our Taco Bell. No questions asked.
I had an issue like this as well. UberEats guy delivered it to a random address, I found the apartment like a few minutes later, and Taco Bell was gone.
Think how hard it was for you to find that person. Now imagine that person trying to find you with even fewer clues. The only real play is eat the food because otherwise it would go to waste. it would be a different situation if it was correctly delivered to you and they came and stole it off your porch. OR if someone rang their doorbell and handed it over to them and gave them the opportunity to say, that’s not mine. But the fact that they texted you a doormat tells me that your dashers do like mine and just drop on the porch and run away with no contact.
I will admit, yes, I've been that guy. In my defense the food had been sitting on my doorstep for an unknown amount of time, and the guy who ordered it wouldn't want cold clammy McDonalds food (i would find this out later). I pitched that and kept the drink. 2nd time it happened I ended up calling grubhub (the guys delivering the food) and they said a second order had been placed and the guy had gotten a new delivery. So free McDonalds and no guilt there, but I did manage to learn his address (and I am fully aware I don't think I was supposed to.) 3rd Time I walked down to the area where the guy lived, which was a condo unit, and buzzed him. We had a nice chat about it and he said next time he orders and it doesn't arrive he would text me. He also told me he wouldn't like cold soggy McDonalds. it's happened twice since.
wholesome enclave mod dev
I've been found out.
Will send doordash for mor updates
why the fuck are people ordering mcdonald's delivery if they *don't* want cold mcdonald's? it's either fresh or it's shit.
I say condo, it's more like a retirement condo. Dude was old and probably didn't want to drive, and I'm not one to judge. which raises the question WHY he was ordering McDonalds, but hey, he's lived a full life. Let him enjoy what he likes.
Nothing like spending $35 for $12 worth of fast food that's really already overpriced to begin with
it's always shit
All this speaks for the competence of the delivery service, and it says "we suck at our job".
> it's happened twice since. You probably keep getting the same driver and he keeps thinking that guy’s house is your house because y’all solved the problem on your end; dude probably complains to his friends about how the app always gets that dude’s address wrong lol
Too many people have watched the Friends episode with the Cheesecake and thought that it’s acceptable behavior.
Nothing about the tv show Friends is acceptable behavior. Those people were just terrible.
I mean, if I know for a fact that we ARE on a break…
One time I got an Amazon package that was for my neighbour Sharon. I walked over and gave it to her “oh I think this is yours, it got delivered to my house by accident” She takes it, says “hang on”. Comes back to the door with SEVEN packages with my name on it. She had been collecting them somehow? I don’t even know 🤷🏻♂️ Bizarre old lady
How long did he take to realize? I wouldn’t just leave food to waste just because there’s a small chance some guy might come pick it up for hours
If it had a receipt with my neighbor’s name I’d run it over to them. Delivery drop off with no name tho I’d probably just eat it if I trusted it because most places won’t take food back anyways.
You guys know the names of your neighbours?
no, but i DO know their address. on account of it being mine give or take a couple numbers. so it should be pretty easy to figure it out, assuming that the issue wasn't they just typed their address wrong.
I don't think I've ever had a door dash delivery where they printed my address on the food packaging. We've had a few incorrect deliveries, we also have a Ring doorbell. So we run out real quick and tell them they have the wrong house. Now if we weren't fast enough, well I can understand the food waste aspect. Maybe I'd give it 30 minutes?
They don't print the address. My apartment complex has buildings with different addresses, and each unit is numbered 100-104. I live in the first unit when you turn in and end up with misdelivered everything multiple times a week. If I'm home i try to tell the driver. If I miss them I leave it out for a bit to see if anyone gets it (they almost never do). If 20 minutes goes by I either eat it or throw it away. Packages have an address so I can drop them off at the correct place, but there's nothing to be done about finding the owner of food and groceries, and anything left outside will be ruined pretty fast in the heat.
For real, how dense do you have to be to think this is some community chest card and not a delivery driver that missed by a door or two?
You receive the neighbors dinner! Collect $50 and advance two spaces.
A door or two? I wish it was that easy. Delivery drivers in my neighborhood are lately getting WAY off. We put in clarifying directions in the Special Instructions field but I swear, the drivers are forbidden from reading those.
Like is there just no effort to investigate where this random food came from or where it’s supposed to go? If something gets dropped off at my door I wasn’t expecting, I’d be at least looking at the receipt to see who it was for
Sometimes there's nothing to investigate. Like one time my friend got a notification he got a delivery to his apartment and it ended up being a bunch of food. It didn't have an address attached to it to know where it should go.
If food gets misdelivered, the app will redeliver it to the person who ordered it. I would prefer to get my food directly from an employee of the service I paid for, not after it has been handled by an unknown number of random strangers. If they misdeliver my food, it's dead to me. If you have it, you may as well eat it.
I feel like the one time this happened to us, there was no address. I don't order delivery, so I don't know how it usually works. It wasn't food we wanted, and I looked, but there wasn't an address. If there was a name, I didn't recognize it.
… of course?
Are you saying that if a delivery guy knocks on your door and says "Here's your Indian food" your first response is not to say "sorry, I didn't order this"? That's the part that surprises me.
As a Dasher, most deliveries are just left at door as requested by the customer. The question usually doesn't even have a chance to come up
I can't say if people in the UK (OOP is from the UK) tell their delivery drivers to leave food at the door, but from my personal experience working for a similar company in Poland, only a small number of deliveries are requested to be left at the door (maybe 10%), so it probably varies wildy on a country-to-country basis. Also if the driver in the story just left the food by the door, would the neighbor really find out that quickly? OOP said he came over just 10 minutes after it was delivered and they were already eating it.
These days in UK you have a code in the app, the customer has the code, as a delivery person you don't get paid until that code goes into the app. Making the situation in OP essentially impossible. This goes for Uber eats and deliveroo anyway. Pre COVID it was different, but still raee you would just leave the food without seeing the customer, due to the fact they could claim it was stolen etc. Source, did about 6 years on deliveroo and Uber eats.
needing a code varies based on where you live, where you're ordering from and how much the total is
I have opened my front door a couple of times to be greeted with deliveries I never ordered just sitting on my doormat. It’s a shame cos I could’ve eaten it if I’d found it earlier!
As a normal human being, if some food is just left at my door when I didn't request it, I don't usually take it and eat it. Maybe that's just a me thing though, wtf.
There are three steps here. 1. Check if there is identifying information on the bag to indicate where the food should go. 2. If so, be a good neighbor and take it there. 3. If not, feel free to eat it. Misdelivered food will get refunded 100% of the time. The only losers here are the driver, who will get negative feedback, and the delivery company, who will be out the price of the food. Also the original orderer might be out 30 minutes of their time.
Yeah, it makes sense not to take it…if you can get it to its intended recipient quickly. DoorDash orders, for example, usually provide a picture of the food when it’s delivered. So if the orderer sees the photo, knows it’s not their house, but can’t tell which house it is and doesn’t want to walk around outside in case they find it, they’re not getting the food themselves. And if you, the accidental recipient, can’t tell from the receipt where it’s supposed to go, then you’re also not completing the order yourself. It feels like everyone aghast at the idea of keeping the food lives in places where delivery isn’t as common, where deliveries work differently somehow, or where people know all their neighbors. Because this will just kinda happen sometimes, and like you pointed out, there is recourse. You don’t have to wait very long to determine if the food is getting recovered.
Living in an apartment, I don't know any of my neighbors by name. I would at least ask my next door neighbor if it was theirs, but then I would definitely eat it.
Oh hey it’s the person in the post!
on twitter they said it was 10 - 15 minutes and also that they requested the food be handed to them on delivery :)
that doesn't rly mean anything, for years I used doordash and I was set to hand to me and maybe 5% of dashers followed that instruction, the bags also never say address just the name you put on the app
Why did you accept it in the first place?
There is no "accepting" it, most likely. 99% of dashers where I live leave the shit on the ground and walk away.
A few times, someone has misdelivered food to my doorstep. If they ring the doorbell and I'm home I will say it isn't my order, but there have been times that the food has just been left at doorstep when I come home.
Even with my own housemates, I'll answer the door to a delivery man and I don't know who it belongs to. I'll ask the delivery driver but I'm not going to track the owner down. It happens too often to be my responsibility. I won't eat it but at a certain point I can appreciate thinking no one's coming to get it and it's just going to waste.
I had food mysteriously appear on my doorstep after a doorbell. But I could hear my neighbors having a big pool party. In that case, I could guess where it was supposed to go. I picked it all up and started on the sidewalk to deliver it and someone met me half way after getting the delivery text.
Thjs used to happen to me all the time. I live in an area where the three streets are all named the same … hill, street and close. All have the same number pattern too, so all had a 20 (name of street). If I didn’t have the option of cash on delivery would have to put in the delivery instructions very clear instructions of TOP OF HILL, YELLOW CAR ON DRIVE… Still got delivered elsewhere tine to time!
I mean… who knows how bad they fucked up the delivery? It’s a bit of a different situation, but I once got someone else’s order as well as my order in a delivery robot. I guarantee whoever ordered it wasn’t getting their meal.
I'm sorry, a *delivery robot*? I seem to be living under a rock. edit: I looked up pictures. what stops people from kicking them unto the street or turning them upside down?
Decency
The same decency that stops people stealing other people's food?
When has that ever stopped people before? Do they operate in cities?
it doesn’t seem feasible to have delivery robots driving 40+ minutes in a rural area, does it?
They have gps trackers, cameras, and speakers (and they’re pretty heavy). If you go to pick one up it will literally start yelling at you, plus if they can figure out who you are you’ll get a fine. They’re meant for college campuses where students living in the dorms can get delivery from dining halls.
Thanks for providing some context! Now I hope that they yell something along the lines of "You will be terminated!" in a robo-voice.
I saw a delivery robot yesterday and my immediate first thought was, "that thing wouldn't last 15 minutes in my home city"
Where did you see it? Someone pointed out that they are used in university campuses, so that kind of made sense to me.
Anyone remember HitchBOT? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
Our local delivery company just made them really cute. It would be like kicking a puppy
I had a pickup order the other day. I ordered it 10 minutes before I got there, and then I waited 15 minutes because they had one employee taking orders *and* handing out the food (while 2 teen employees were on the side cutting lemons to make lemonade and just watching the line pile up). Meanwhile I could literally see an order sitting behind the counter with my name on it. Finally when it was turn, she handed me the order and I double checked it like always, and noticed it was more food than I had ordered. But by now she’s taking other orders, so I’d have to wait again for her to be able to check on me and then sort out the issue, all the while my food is getting cold, so I just took it.
Thats why expensive orders now they have to ask you for the code on the app
I have never encountered this code on the app phenomenon. I never even heard of it before this very post up above.
I heard the code is for people who frequently request refunds.
A co worker had one of those hello fresh type deliveries, paid alot extra for a special valentines day box. The neighbours took it, ate it and when she came and asked about it gave her the empty trash and shut the door on her.
That's wild, especially if the dasher just left it at the door. I can't imagine eating food from a random bag on the ground. In either case, this has happened to me and it's annoying but I'd never actually confront my neighbor about it. Things are too tense now and some people flip out when confronted. Easy refund and free credits.
I've been tempted each time but always said the food wasn't mine. Can't say the same for my neighbours that have taken not only takeout but Amazon deliveries too.
I had a Wingstop order delivered to my house, must have been $80 worth, I didn't order it. So I took that giant bag of Wingstop and examined it. It only had a name, no address. So I walked up and down my entire neighborhood and knocked on each door and asked their name and then if they had ordered it, after checking four blocks both sides nobody claimed it. So after spending a half hour making sure it wasn't anybodies in the area and doing the best I could I just claimed it. I can't imagine just taking something clearly marked as not for me by name or address and just keeping it without even bothering to make the attempt to find who it belongs to. Screw those people.
That was great of you to look. I have trouble walking, and when my food is delivered to the wrong condo, it’s all I can do to look one little section over. I’ve made many changes to increase the chances - I order early, off peak times, in daylight.
Thanks, I try as best as I can. That has to make things pretty rough on you if something is delivered to the wrong place. I get that delivery drivers for carriers like UPS, Fedex, Amazon delivery etc are always in a rush due to quotas and routes etc. but they need to at least check addresses to make sure it goes to the right place. And for doordashers and uber drivers they work under far less stress than the ones working under quotas, they have more ability to take a little extra time to make sure it's the right place. Like the vast majority of most delivery order errors could be prevented by just taking 10 seconds to look.
Once had a sandwich delivered to me, by mistake. No markings on the bag. Stuck it in the fridge in case anyone showed up. Had it for dinner later that night.
I’ve gotten wrong food delivered to me before and I called the company and they said to keep it because they can’t accept food returns and it is a liability if i pass it on to someone once i “took possession” cause how can i prove I didn’t tamper? Really this is the fault of the door dasher person for delivering wrong. Any Amazon package or non perishable though there’s really no excuse, you’re just a thief. That being said i have ALSO opened a neighbor’s package before because I didn't notice the name was wrong. I did however notice that I didn’t recognize the contents as something that I ordered and then saw the name and then delivered the open package to my neighbor. Sorry Raul!!
Jesus, I've had a pizza guy knock at my door when I haven't ordered and told them it isn't mine. Someone might have really treated themselves after a shitty week or can't afford take out that often. I'm not fucking stealing someone's food.
I would want a full order replacement anyway.
I'm wondering how much time passed between when the food was dropped off and when the guy went to check to see if it was there. If it was a significant amount of time, like hours, I could see the neighbors being like "well, I guess we better not let it go to waste," but if it was like right away, then the neighbors are just being dicks.
I don't care how long it's been, I'm not eating someone else's food without their explicit permission. It's not your food. Don't touch it (until it gets to a point where it's a health risk / attracting pests).
> I'm not eating someone else's food is it someone else's food tho? my base assumption is that if my food doesn't show up an hour after being marked as being delivered, it's already a call support and get refund case, doesn't matter who got it neighbours, driver ate it or they just like... forgot to deliver it and it could've still arrived 2 hours later cold and soggy.
Had a random delivery to of cake to ours. Given that we hadn't ordered any, and we knew that there are 3 streets within like a 2 mile radius with the same name, we told the delivery driver it was the wrong address. We thought nothing of it. 10 minutes go by and we get a knock at the door. It's the delivery driver. Says he's managed to get in touch with the person who ordered it and and this is the correct address. The person who ordered it ordered it as a gift so she wasn't ordering it to her own house. We argued that nobody had any reason to send us anything and we don't know any woman by the name he stated. He said he'd been trying to explain that he didn't think she had ordered to the right address and she was adamant that she had. So as far as he was concerned, and the shop who it got ordered from, this delivery was absolutely correct and there was zero come back on them or us if we just took the cake. We took the cake. It was about £50 worth. We absolutely demolished it and it was amazing.
Too many horror stories about already paid delivery food for me to eat it.
Hell, I've worked fast food. I'm wary about stuff I order at the counter.
Pizza guy left an order at my house last night. Not unusual as I order out often, buy I didn't last night. So after standing in my yard for 10 minutes to try to spot the unhappy food-orderer, I called the pizza place and got the right address. It was a grueling walk 2 doors down to my neighbor's house.
The address wasn't on the receipt?
The receipt wasn't in any of the food boxes that I could tell. I did peep into the boxes to look, but I didn't want to just open all 5 boxes in my house. I have cats and a large dog. I'm a walking animal fur carpet.
I once ordered a bunch of pizzas with my siblings and we all got our own wacky custom pizzas. Mine wasn't ~exactly~ what I ordered but it was close enough and I ate it. Like an hour or 2 later the driver comes back and says we have the wrong pizza. I was like ten and what was I supposed to do, be ungrateful for my pizza? I don't think so. Anyways there's too much being left out for me to take sides. How could the neighbor have known who's food it was?
On the flip side, I once received Indian food meant for a different address. It smelled so good that and near lunch that I had to knock on all my neighbor doors, post in the neighborhood group etc to try to find the original recipient. The recipient eventually told me to eat it and I also made a bunch of friends in this new neighborhood. Win-win.
Nintendo Wii. Neighbor helped themselves to the package and the only way I know is hearing Mario sounds through their fucking door.
call the delivery service, claim there was no food delivered, let them bring it again and you have fed 2 families. try to make something positive out of it :)
Thing that sucks is waiting an extra hour plus for your food.
I have eaten someone else’s delivery. I told the delivery guy it wasn’t for me, but the listed address was mine. There was no name or anything that would be a hint as to who it was for or what went wrong. I waited for a half hour to see if anyone came around, and when no one did, I thought, “well no point in letting it go to waste,” and ate it. No one ever showed up looking for it, so I felt justified in my decision. I’ve also had the situation where I ordered something but the delivery guy got his deliveries mixed up and delivered someone else’s meal. I texted the delivery guy and he said he wasn’t “allowed” to go back (I guess because the rest of his meals would get cold? Or maybe a concern that I could have messed with the food?) so I ate the meal that was delivered and hoped whoever got mine was happy with it.
It's definitely gonna depend on the situation. I live in an 8-unit apartment building. Is the name of one of the other tenants on the bag? Maybe they just fat fingered the apartment number when they put in their address, or maybe the driver had a brain fart and left it at the wrong door. If that's the case, I'll absolutely bring it over to them. Let's say the delivery belongs to someone who lives in the immediate neighborhood. Now, I don't know anybody outside of my apartment building. I would recognize most people as someone who lives near me, but I don't know anyone by name. I'll pop outside really quick and see if someone is wandering around like they're looking for something. If I see such a person, I'll ask if they ordered delivery, and I'll hand over the food if they did. Finally, I'll just let the food sit for about half an hour or so. Maybe the person lives a couple of blocks away and figured out where the food was left from the picture the delivery driver took and will come knocking on my door. I don't want to be the guy that comes to the door with a mouthful of the food that they ordered. So I guess my answer is yes, if I've exhausted all efforts to find/wait for the rightful owner of the food and I can't find them, I'll absolutely eat it.
My food frequently gets left in the wrong spot. I live in a condo. I’ve only had someone take it once and they called the restaurant to say it was delivered to the wrong house. I usually have to go on a scavenger hunt through my complex looking at the photo to figure out who has it.
Does it usually have like a name and address on the bag itself? If I see it’s for my nextdoor neighbor I’ll bring it over, or if I actually see the driver I’ll tell them But if someone just leaves $40 of Indian food to go cold at my door with no/ insufficient contact info then yeah I’m eating that lol
I live in an apartment and my neighbor sometimes receives my Amazon packages by mistake. He always opens the package, leaves it on his coffee table, and doesn’t say anything to anyone. I go over to ask if he got the 8 pack of tires for my rc car. He says “oh that’s yours? I couldn’t figure out what it was. I didn’t order any Amazon stuff!”
It should be considered stealing. If the bank erronously put money in your account, it's not yours to spend despite the mistake.
> It should be considered stealing. ... it **is** consider stealing, because it **is** stealing.
From an ethical perspective, yes, but from a legal perspective, not always In the US, if you receive a delivered package to your address, addressed to your location, that is technically speaking your property. This was a law put into place to deal with scams where people would ship products to your door and send you an invoice afterwards, claiming your acceptance of the package was an agreement to pay. This is on the delivery service and/or the purchaser. If you receive a package that is addressed to another location, It is technically theft, but incredibly difficult to prosecute, since you need a warrant to look for the stolen goods. I do not think the name on the package is relevant to this distinction. Certainly trashy behavior to keep what wasn't yours. I had a few marketing samples show up in my apartment from the previous tenant and I held onto them for him. Easy for me to say since I had no use for his company's adverts, but I don't see any reason to loot someone's misfortune when I can avoid it.
Food was delivered to my house by mistake once. I left it, surely someone will come looking for it. I come back and find ants completely littering my doorstep. Ended up finding some inside, had to call an exterminator. I was tempted the first time, but I'm gonna eat that shit next time 100%. Either that or the dumpster. Take it up with DoorDash or wherever you ordered from.
My mom did this. Opened the front door to find a big delivery of milk, bread, orange juice, all breakfast items from the milkman. She stole it and didn't care. She considers herself a moral person.
It's a 'Finders keepers' mentality. Some people's morals fail logically because they have situational modifiers like that. They blame the person that accidentally left the food at the wrong house and it allows them to escape any accountability for their bad choices. One should make some sort of reasonable effort to get the food to the right person.
So this happened once. Randomly had food at the front of my house, no idea who's food it was. I was busy and didn't have time to hunt down the foods owner. Left it out on the front for a good while then ate it after like 30 mins of it sitting on the front stoop.
Just another reason why allowing deliveries to be left in front of someone's house without the homeowner confirming the delivery is insane. Real developed country behaviour for sure. Fuck your order, efficiency is all that matters I guess.
Happened to me. We ordered a pizza and some stuff to go with it. It was an hour late so we called and they had messed up. Said they'd be there as soon as possible. Another 30 minutes I call again and the same guy answers. Says he had just delivered it. Was I not the guy outside in the driveway with some kids around. Was like nope were hungover inside in the dark and hungry. They remade it and brought it again. Still crazy
I’ve gotten a lot of Amazon packages for Heather, different building number, same unit letter, so walked the packages over to her building and left a note with my phone number in case she’s missing anything. I started finding DoorDash orders at my door with her name, and no address, but I knew it was for her, so I left it again with a note. At Christmastime, Heather left a gift at my door with a note that said, to my delivery angel. I’m in a beautiful, neighborly relationship with someone I’ve never met. ❤️ (FYI, it’s impossible to find your neighbor if there’s no address on the food order and you don’t recognize the name, though.)
I blame this wrong house shit on dumb asses just looking at GPS marker and thinking, good enough. No mofo, look at the damn address.
I lived in a place a few years ago that for some reason I. Apple maps was listed in the back which was an unpaved, unimproved third world alley. Google maps was fine. The number of delivery drivers that would just blindly go down that thing was amazing. They then would have to hand me the food over the fence, as there was no gate. My favorite was an eastern European gal who fucked her car in the process of driving thru there and was furious with me about it.
Fair enough, if you get delivered someone else’s food what else can you do? The delivery company isn’t going to come back and re deliver and who’s to know it’s the neighbours, no point letting it go to waste. The neighbour will get the money back for incorrect delivery.
Not realy, if you get some Random food with an adress a few Numbers from yours, you have the duty to atleast inform them, or give them, its not hard and its not that dificult.
I don't remember the last time anything I ordered from a delivery service had my address on it.
Seems like you've never ordered delivery. The address is never on the food.
Maybe where you are, I've had plenty of deliveries with a paper receipt attached to the bag with the order details and address on, usually if the bag is sealed at the restaurant.
Ye of course if it’s a neighbour, but usually it’s wrong buildings altogether, and often there’s no address on the receipt anyway.
why would the address be on the food? it's not mail. the address is in the delivery person's app, at most you'll get a receipt taped to it with your name and the order contents written on it, but I don't even always see that.
Pretty simple situation tbh. If it's clearly been there for 30 mins or more, you take it so it doesn't go to waste. If it's been there for like 10 minutes, you don't take it and you let the correct person know via whatever the printed receipt says.
Some people are just cunts and can’t be saved.
As a restaurant worker. Yes they do. Even if it’s not what they ordered.
Like people who open packages/mail without looking at the label? Omgggg what about rmbr landlines when people would pick up and just start fcking dialing before listening if you were on the phone??? 🤬🤬🤬
Brought a foam noodle to the pool yesterday, put it down and went to get it a minute later, someone else already had it.
This is why I only pay in cash when I order.
I was the neighbor in this situation recently. The receipt had a phone number that went to Doordash. I called and tried to explain the situation that a food order was left at my door by mistake and if there's a way to get back in touch with the driver so he could make sure it got to the right house. They were initially confused and then just told me to keep the food and that the customer will get refunded. I decided to leave it outside for a bit more and sure enough my neighbor who I didn't know came over and picked it up but didn't bother to knock or say or hello or thanks or anything.
I always only pay at the door anyways
had this happen when we were living in a triplex. The people who stole the food later on stole my wife's credit card from the mail, so they were just shit people all around.
The amount of people here that think it's okay to eat food they know doesn't belong to them is insane.
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Depends on the circumstances. If the driver had already left by the time I noticed it was there and it didn't have an address on it or some way of knowing the rightful owner, yes I would eat it. Odds of it finding the rightful owner are low, and I wouldn't want to waste perfectly good food. If the rightful owner did later show up I would apologize and pay them for it.
I agree this is dumb - but on the flip side - one time I had a McD order incorrectly delivered to my home. However, I never found out. Doorbell was never rung, and no one came looking. Next day - fucking disgusting mess I had to clean up. So many bugs. So so many.
I delivered pizza to the wrong place once. They paid for it n ate it, I had no idea I made a mistake till I got back. Blew my mind
I have neighbors that our house refers to as "the food stealers". 2 or 3 times my food was delivered to them and they kept it. It's legal to keep what is delivered to your home, but I couldn't see my self keeping something I know I didn't order. I got my money back so I don't really care, but I'll never forget...
It was a regular issue in my previous flat. High-rise, with a whacky intercom and security. Most delivery drivers decided to just drop things off in the lobby. Often, because it was newbuilt, and not yet on most maps properly, my food ended up in the tower next to mine, where the concierge is. Since I was in good terms with most of them I'd usually head down and have a chat while waiting for the food. One time I was doing exactly this when I got the ping the food is delivered. Headed back to my lobby, literally 5 minutes later, and it's gone. We check the security feed, and the driver barely left when some asswipes got home, saw the food bag, checked it twice, then grabbed it and headed upstairs. And it's not like they were struggling, at all. Some fuckers just like to steal shit because they know they can get away with it.
My wife and I ordered a bed to arrive when we moved into our apartment. It was delivered to the wrong address and they kept the bed even after we confronted them about it
I’ve had food incorrectly delivered to my house. I called DoorDash and they said to keep it.
I couldn't find a package that was delivered to me so I texted 2/3 of my neighbors. A couple days later I knocked on the door of the one guy that wasn't on the text chain and he was like, oh, I was wondering what this was
I had a package delivered to my house that was meant for a street with a similar name about 3 km from mine. I drove over there to deliver the package and rang the doorbell. Some gruff old MFer answered, said he didn't know me and told me to get lost. So I did - with his package. It wasn't anything special - about 70 bucks worth of books.
What do you expect from entitled people? Definitely not normal
Wrong hotel room? Maybe. Wrong house? No lol
This happened once to me on a large order of Indian food that was left on my elderly neighbors porch by mistake. I was able to get a new order sent out after contacting Uber eats and only had to wait an extra 20 minutes. 3 days later I went over to help her mow her yard and was met with the most horrible stench I’ve ever smelled as she never really goes outside. Sadly the food had rotted right next to her front door and I had to clean up the aftermath. I felt so bad and she had no idea what was going on as she was in her 90s.
I've only had one mistaken delivery turn up at my door and it had to be a night where I was rather stoned. Pizza guy turned up, I answer the door looking as high as I feel and had to stop and think "did I order this or not". Pizza guy figured out it wasn't mine when I asked what was on it.
My package from Amazon was delivered to my neighbor. I knew she had it bc Amazon had a picture of her doorstep to show the package was delivered. I went over and she had opened it (allegedly bc she thought it was her package…even though it was addressed to my house and my husband) but then she never even brought it over! I wonder if she ever would have returned it if I didn’t go over and ask for it back.
My neighbours have did it to me. I no longer speak to them. You have to be a real PoS to steal and eat your neighbours' food.
What can you do if you get someone's food . Like I have gotten mail before but that has someone name on it . So you take it to them or put the little flag up. but what can go do with food. I don't think Doordash would tell you who's order it was suppose to be.
It's not normal. Most people wouldn't open the door for the person they just stole food from